TEST SERIES 2021PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONIAS 2021

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22 NOVEMBER2020TESTSTARTSTest Timings: 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Class Timings: Same Day (12:15 PM Onwards)

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16 Tests in Total- to comprehensively cover the entire syllabus and beyond- 12 Sectional and 2 Mocks of Paper -I and Paper-II each.

Special focus on theoretical and analytical orientation.

Balanced Question papers to cover all aspects.

A special test for ARC covering all important reports and beyond.

One session on ”The skill of Answer Writing” and acing the Exam.

One session on ARC-2 Reports to add more value your answers.

Efficient answer-book correction and actionable feedback.

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TEST SCHEDULE

PAPer - 1TeST Name TeST DaTe TeST TopICS

TeST-1 22 November, 2020

Unit-I : Introduction �Meaning, Scope and Significance of Public Administration Syllabus; Wilson’s Vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice Approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: Concept and Application; New Public Management.

Unit-II : Administrative Thought �Scientific Management and Scientific Management Movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s Bureaucratic Model – Its Critique and Post-Weberian Developments; Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett); Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard); Simon’s Decision-making Theory; Participative Management (R. Likert, C.Argyris, D.McGregor).

TeST - 2 29 November, 2020

Unit-III : Administrative Behaviour �Process and Techniques of Decision-making; Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories – Content, Pprocess and Contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.

Unit 4. Organisations: �Theories – Systems, Contingency; Structure and Forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies, Boards and Commissions; Ad hoc and Advisory Bodies; Headquarters and Field Relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public - Private Partnerships.

TeST - 3 06 December, 2020

Unit 5. Accountability and control: �Concepts of Accountability & Control; Legislative, Executive & Judicial Control over Administration; Citizen & Administration; Role of Media, Interest Groups, Voluntary Organizations; Civil Society; Citizen’s Charters; Right to Information; Social Audit.

Unit6. Administrative Law: �Meaning, Scope and Significance; Dicey on AdministrativLlaw; Delegated Legislation; Administrative Tribunals.

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TeST - 4 13 December, 2020

Unit 7. Comparative Public Administration: �Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and administration; Riggsian models and their critique.

Unit 8. Development Dynamics: �Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’; Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries; Women and development - the self-help group movement.

TeST - 5 20 December, 2020

Unit 9. Personnel Administration: �Importance of human resource development; Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions; employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative ethics.

Unit 10. Public Policy �Models of Policy-Making and their Critique; Processes of Conceptualisation, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and review and their Limitations; State Theories and Public Policy Formulation.

TeST - 6 27 December, 2020

Unit 11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement �Organisation and Methods, Work Study and Work Management; e-Governance and Information Tchnology; Management Aid Tools like Network Aanalysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.

Unit 12. Financial Administration �Monetary and Fiscal Policies; Public Borrowings and Public Debt Budgets - Types and Forms; Budgetary Process; Financial Accountability; Accounts and Audit.

Unit 9. Financial Management (Paper-II): �Budget as a Political Instrument; Parliamentary control of Public Expenditure; Role of Finance Ministry in Monetary and Fiscal Area; Accounting Techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

PAPer - 2

TeST - 7 3 January, 2021

Unit 1. Evolution of Indian Administration: �Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration - Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government. Unit 2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government: Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.

Unit 2. Philosophical and Constitutional Framework �of GovernmentSalient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.

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Unit 3. Public Sector Undertakings: �Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control; Impact of liberalization and privatization.

TeST - 8 10 January, 2021

Unit 4. Union Government and Administration �Executive, Parliament, Judiciary - structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intragovernmental relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations.

Unit 5. Plans and Priorities �Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; ‘Indicative’ planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels; Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.

Unit 6. State Government and Administration �Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates.

TeST - 9 17 January, 2021

Unit 7. District Administration since Independence �Changing role of the Collector; Union-state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.

Unit 11. Rural Development: �Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.

Unit 12. Urban Local Government: �Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management.

TeST - 10 24 January, 2021

Unit 8. Civil Services: �Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building; Good governance initiatives; Code of conduct and discipline; Staff associations; Political rights; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil service neutrality; Civil service activism.

Unit 10. Administrative Reforms since �Independence: Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human resource development; Problems of implementation.

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TeST - 11 31 January, 2021

Unit 13. Law and Order Administration: �British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.

Unit 14. Significant issues in Indian �Administration: Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of administration in coalition regimes; Citizen-administration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster management.

TeST - 12 07 February, 2021

Covering all 2nd ARC reports and related issues. �Special focus on the following reports:-

Ethics in Governance. !Local Governance. !Public Order. !Capacity building for conflict resolution. !Citizen Centric Administration. !Organisational Structure of Government of India. !

State and District Administration. !

TeST 13 & 14

14 February, 2021

Full Test-1 (Paper-I & Paper- II ) �

TeST 15 & 16

21 February, 2021

Full Test-1 (Paper-I & Paper- II ) �

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